Fuel cell unit, fuel cell unit assembly and electronic equipment
OwnerRyuji Kohno, Makoto Kitano +1inventors
InventorsRyuji Kohno, Makoto Kitano, Hayami Toba
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Abstract
For providing a fuel cell unit and a fuel cell unit assembly, wherein membrane electrode assembly and current collector plates are closely contact with each other, so that a liquid fuel hardly leaks out therefom, and further an electronic apparatus equipped with those therein, a DMFC unit U1 for generating electricity through supply of methanol solution therein comprises a MEA 11, a pair of current collector plates 12 and 13 for the MEA, a fuel tank 20 having a fuel chamber 20a where the methanol solution is stored therein, and a holding means 40 for holding the current collector plates 12 and 13 within an area where the MEA 11 is disposed.
Claims16
A fuel cell unit for generating electricity through supply of a liquid fuel therein, comprising:
- a membrane electrode assembly;
- a pair of current collector plates for said membrane electrode assembly;
- a fuel tank having a liquid-fuel storage space for storing the liquid fuel therein;
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- a holding means for holding said current collector plates therebetween, within an area for disposing said membrane electrode assembly.
A fuel cell unit for generating electricity through supply of a liquid fuel therein, comprising:
- a plural number of membrane electrode assemblies;
- a plural number of current collector plates corresponding to said plural number of membrane electrode assemblies;
- a fuel tank having a liquid-fuel storage space for storing the liquid fuel therein;
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- a pair of holding plates for holding said plural number of membrane electrode assemblies and said plural number of current collector plates, collectively, putting them therebetween from an outside, wherein said plural number of membrane electrode assemblies are disposed on a surface in direction thereof.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.